Good advice is never as helpful as an interest-free loan.

Pain narrows consciousness; pleasure blurs it.

When Medusa looks in the mirror, she sees the Lady of Sorrows.

My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.

Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth

The sewing machine joins what the scissors have cut asunder, plus whatever else comes in its path.

Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.

The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.

'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.'

Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.

Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris.

Death, everyone fears it in one way or another but when I stood in front of it myself, face to face, I felt no fear.

A cat is a cat.

He knew how intelligent men could be broken by the stupidity of their superiors, how weeks of patient work night and day could be cast aside by such a man

The love of reading can be contagious.

If we are to continue to have the freedoms that came of the inspiration of the Almighty to our Founding Fathers, we must return to the God who is their true Author.

I could quite happily just make music because it conjures up a whole visual world for me in my mind.

There's just a pit that develops in your stomach and doesn't go away. It's the championship pit and it's there.

A long-term marriage has to move beyond chemistry to compatibility, to friendship, to companionship. It is certainly not that passion disappears, but that it is conjoined with other ways of love.

People ask me about fighting in real life and, honestly, it wouldn't look as graceful as it does in film and TV.

More than in any other human relationship, overwhelmingly more, motherhood means being instantly interruptible, responsive, and responsible